Today is the day the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event will play down till its final eight players. Still seventeen players remain on this penultimate day so nine players will leave the tournament today with a disappointed attitude.
The tournament is set to start at noon local time. German player Timo Pfutzenreuter is the chip leader with 3,837,000 in chips, closely followed by Spanish player Pablo Gordillo who has 3,582,000 in chips. Oleksii Khoroshenin, who has 437,000 in chips, is the short stack, but even that stack converts to almost 15 big blinds.
With seventeen players remaining late last night there was a redraw. When one player is eliminated today the tournament will get down to two tables of eight and another redraw will be done.
Starting blinds will be 15,000/30,000 as the tournament played exactly five levels yesterday. There's no set amount of levels to be played today, they'll play as long as it takes to get down to eight players. During the last EPT event in Deauville the fifth day of play took a little under six hours to complete. The PCA this year took just under two hours. The more hours it takes today to get down to eight, the shorter the final table will be, and vice versa.
PokerNews will bring you updates from start to finish, no matter how the day will be. We'll bring you photos from all the players, videos to recap the day and you'll of course will once again find the live stream right here! See you in about 90 minutes!